What no one else knows you know it only hurts yourself
Like the ghosts you left bleeding in the portrait on your shelf
Of those third person dreams that leave a stale taste in your mouth
Left bewildered by plot lines you can’t seem to figure out
When old memories blur the lines of the path that you chose
But you’re tied by the briars that perpetually grow
Fed by your soiled heart that at a time did coincide
With the patterns you wish to break but dwell too deep in the mind

Now I cant really be sure why I keep struggling to breathe
When escape is so close but just a hair out of reach
Like that nightmare where everything moves quick to the slaughter
But your muscles can’t move, like you’re submerged under water

The secrets you hold you know they can only hold you down
But these days I can’t tell the difference in above or below ground
All the faces look familiar but I can’t distinguish their features
Which of these were past relations and which were fictional creatures?
Has the story just been repeating like an endless loop of growing cold?
Doing the same thing over and over expecting different results?
A definition I’ve been taught to recite even in deep within REM
But that machine the pills created no I don’t ever want to become again

But I cant really be sure why I keep struggling to breathe
When escape is so close but just a hair out of reach
Like that nightmare where everything moves quick to the slaughter
But your muscles can’t move, like you’re submerged under water

And I know it won’t end here but I just felt you should know
That the endless question of what is real has grown rather old

What no one else knows you know it only hurts yourself
Like the ghosts you left bleeding in the portrait on your shelf
Of those third person dreams that leave a stale taste in your mouth
Left bewildered by plot lines you can’t seem to figure out
When old memories blur the lines of the path that you chose
But you’re tied by the briars that perpetually grow
Fed by your soiled heart that at a time did coincide
With the patterns you wish to break but dwell too deep in the mind

And I cant really be sure why I keep struggling to breathe
When escape is so close but just a hair out of reach
Like that nightmare where everything moves quick to the slaughter
But your muscles can’t move, like you’re submerged under water